Marty Overweg

Amid scrutiny from past decisions, the new Commissioner of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development says the department is working to right past wrongs. For now, they are looking at one in particular involving a shrimp farming operation.

After reports of former Gov. Kristi Noem’s expenditures on the state credit card went public, lawmakers are asking for accountability of the state’s highest office.

South Dakota says it is “Open for Business,” but recent developments in the state Legislature have some worried its business-friendly model may be changing.

The proposed Lincoln County Corrections center will cost the state no more than $825 million. But that cost doesn’t include construction of the road to get to the prison—the location which is in the middle of a cornfield 20 miles from the existing prison.

One of the largest topics facing state lawmakers this two-month long legislative session is the fate of a new men’s prison near Sioux Falls.

Concerned legislators and landowners meet at the State Fair to discuss eminent domain. They said it is not just carbon pipelines that landowner should be worried about.

A bill allowing municipalities and counties to join together to build regional jails has died in the South Dakota House of Representatives.

A bill aimed at providing restitution to landowners for damages incurred by trespassing hunters died in the House.

House lawmakers will wait another legislative day before voting on an update to a contentious bill from last year. The bill sets up a grant and loan fund for housing infrastructure.

Governor Kristi Noem is moving current State Representative Kyle Schoenfish to the senate to fill a vacancy left by Stace Nelson, who resigned in November…